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New Museum — SANAA
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Structure reduced to line.
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Systems of Clarity
Atlas Index:
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Origin:
New York
Era:
2007
Themes / Lineage:
line; light; proportion
Field Notes:
line; stack; glass
Quiet Modernism appears here as structural weight reduced to line.

Structure reduced to line.

New Museum — SANAA

Load collapses into linear form.

Mass withdraws.

Line holds structure.

What remains after reduction?
Structure is often associated with mass, yet mass collapses into trace. Load transfers into direction. What continues is order carried by line.

Structure is often associated with mass, yet mass collapses into trace.

Load transfers into direction.

What continues is order carried by line.

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